Flat-screen TVs. Gay, lesbian and transsexual rights. Cell phones (with mp3 and video), even for kids. A speed limit of over 30 mph!!! Airplanes that can fly faster than the speed of sound, faster than a speeding bullet. Permanent press fabrics. Microwave cooking. Fast food. Tofu. Sushi. Light beer.
Genetic screening. Debit cards. Credit cards. Routine heart transplants. Smoking banned in most places. Abortion on demand. "God is dead." Televangelists. No-fault divorce. Divorce on demand. Mickey Rooney and Liz Taylor (8 marriages each). Britney Spears and pop-tarts in general.
Photocopiers. Samizdat. Color printers. Glossy advertising printed so cheaply that it is literally thrown out. Remote controls of all sorts. VCR. DVD. USB fobs with the space for 1000 copies of The Bible. The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, David Bowie.
Playboy centerfolds. Hustler. Downloadable porn. AIDS. China being the biggest exporter of consumer goods. "Average" houses worth 250,000 to 1 million. Tanning booths.
No spitting on the sidewalk. Poop and scoop. Deodorants. Ballpoint pens. Nylons. Artificial fabrics of all types. Polyester (okay - NOBODY understands polyester). Rap music. Parking restrictions. Jaywalking being illegal. State lotteries.
T Shirts. Jeans, capri pants and slacks for women. "Casual business attire." Disposable watches, calculators. The near-death of pencils and erasors. Surgery as fashion statement. Michael Jackson. Boy George. Madonna.
"You can't hit your wife." "You can't hit your kid." "You can't beat your animals." "You can't threaten someone." You CAN burn the flag. You CAN call the President an idiot to an audience - and you'll even get laughs. Choose life?
First he expects smart people to be beautiful (or the converse) and now he expects large boobs to be pert?
Hush up, you. They may have taken away our dreams of flying cars and houses on the Moon, but breasts that are both large and pert is a future worth fighting for!
Harry Potter's coming out? About freakin' time! I mean, it's been pretty obvious since day one that he's got a thing for Ron, so it's now a big deal anyways.
Certainly puts a different spin on the topic title of "Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked".
If I were to make an educated guess, I'd say that either Euston Road, Picadilly or Trafalgar Square would win this competition, as they are major traffic arteries that cabs are always visible on.
That's what you think, my money is on Mornington Crescent... everyone is always trying to get there.
...except for physics issues (I manage to, according to my client, move fully out of the field of view, yet someone shooting at me with high ping times still "sees" me and gets the shot) and...
That's not a physics issue, that how Valve's network code is written. The idea is to level the playing field for HPBs a little bit and it's actually pretty good once you get used to it.
If you wanted to complain about an actual physics issue then you'd question why the terrorists have installed bouncy forcefield generators inside barrels, carts, tires and every other damn thing not nailed down.
Two groups of test subjects. Tell Group A the usual story, some people are getting placebos while others are getting the real thing and no one knows who's who. Tell group B everyone's getting a placebo. Give everyone placebos, and see if the pills being taken by group A have any effect. ~ Also get Group C and tell them they are all getting placebos and give them the real pills and get Group D and tell them they are all getting the real pills and give them placebos. With Group A, the patients will have some uncertainty about what they are getting and that may affect the effect.
Then get Group E and tell them they are getting real placebos and give them random pills and then get Groups F through J and give them pills on the second Tuesday of every month and tell them you're uncertain about what the pills are and then get Group K to distribute fake placebos, real placebos and small slices of toast to Groups A, D and G respectively and then tell Group L they're not needed and should just take whatever pills they find at home or on the street. This ensures that Groups B, C, E and J but not C know what they're taking but not really and that people in Group A will think they're in Group D.
We finally figure out how to hurl objects into other planets at 134,216 miles per hour and you want to slow them down?! I bet you're one of those Bruckheimer haters as well aren't you?
Niche? Market? This is one of my pet peeves about Firefox - or at least many of it's users - they've forgotten what free software is about. Success no longer appears to be about how good the software is, it's about how many tiny percentage points of userbase can be clawed away from IE or how many new users were converted by the NYT advertisement.
The only way K-Meleon would lose any battle would be if it stopped being good software to use, and having used it since 0.3 I can say that's yet to happen.
I had to confirm every file I deleted. In my stupor I said yes to delete every.c,.h,.o and anything else in the directory. It was at that point that I decided to take up drinking coffee.
The affected notebooks are Compaq Evo Notebook N610c, Compaq Evo Notebook N610v, Compaq Evo Notebook N620c, Compaq Evo Notebook N800c, Compaq Evo Notebook N800v, Compaq Evo Notebook N800w, Compaq Evo Notebook N1000c, Compaq Evo Notebook N1000v, Compaq Presario 1500, Compaq Presario 2800, Compaq Presario x1000, Compaq Presario x1200, HP Compaq Business Notebook nx7000 and HP Pavilion zt3000.
The Department of Redundancy wants to make you their king.
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Based on the comments here I think it's probably time to cede the Slashdot comments system to the Alt-Right (Entitled Idiot Techbro Division).
I mean the site's always had a slight libertarian bent that was best ignored, but damn it's got stupid in here.
I like poetic justice, but to be truly satisfying, they should have given him diabetes. Anyone who knows of Clarkson will understand.
Genetic screening. Debit cards. Credit cards. Routine heart transplants. Smoking banned in most places. Abortion on demand. "God is dead." Televangelists. No-fault divorce. Divorce on demand. Mickey Rooney and Liz Taylor (8 marriages each). Britney Spears and pop-tarts in general.
Photocopiers. Samizdat. Color printers. Glossy advertising printed so cheaply that it is literally thrown out. Remote controls of all sorts. VCR. DVD. USB fobs with the space for 1000 copies of The Bible. The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, David Bowie.
Playboy centerfolds. Hustler. Downloadable porn. AIDS. China being the biggest exporter of consumer goods. "Average" houses worth 250,000 to 1 million. Tanning booths.
No spitting on the sidewalk. Poop and scoop. Deodorants. Ballpoint pens. Nylons. Artificial fabrics of all types. Polyester (okay - NOBODY understands polyester). Rap music. Parking restrictions. Jaywalking being illegal. State lotteries.
T Shirts. Jeans, capri pants and slacks for women. "Casual business attire." Disposable watches, calculators. The near-death of pencils and erasors. Surgery as fashion statement. Michael Jackson. Boy George. Madonna.
"You can't hit your wife." "You can't hit your kid." "You can't beat your animals." "You can't threaten someone." You CAN burn the flag. You CAN call the President an idiot to an audience - and you'll even get laughs. Choose life?
First he expects smart people to be beautiful (or the converse) and now he expects large boobs to be pert?
Hush up, you. They may have taken away our dreams of flying cars and houses on the Moon, but breasts that are both large and pert is a future worth fighting for!
You forget the comedy value of large numbers, surely you've heard the old joke 324,335,000,543,735,245,007,314?
Cracks me up every time that one.
Drugs to aid vegetative patients is ridiculous when you can simply cure them by feeding them meat.
[Camera flies in over Miami, pans past some T&A, settles on a bank, crime happens, screen flashes to post-crime investigation scene]
SUPPORTING CAST: Blah blah blah VIDEO GAMES blah blah.
HORATIO: Well now [puts on sunglasses, stares into distance] it looks like the game just turned deadly!
[roll intro]
~ I can't believe it's not science stuff happens ~
[Horatio locks up criminal]
HORATIO: Well now [puts on sunglasses, stares into distance] I guess it's game over!
[roll credits]
Harry Potter's coming out? About freakin' time! I mean, it's been pretty obvious since day one that he's got a thing for Ron, so it's now a big deal anyways.
Certainly puts a different spin on the topic title of "Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked".
If I were to make an educated guess, I'd say that either Euston Road, Picadilly or Trafalgar Square would win this competition, as they are major traffic arteries that cabs are always visible on.
That's what you think, my money is on Mornington Crescent... everyone is always trying to get there.
...except for physics issues (I manage to, according to my client, move fully out of the field of view, yet someone shooting at me with high ping times still "sees" me and gets the shot) and...
That's not a physics issue, that how Valve's network code is written. The idea is to level the playing field for HPBs a little bit and it's actually pretty good once you get used to it.
If you wanted to complain about an actual physics issue then you'd question why the terrorists have installed bouncy forcefield generators inside barrels, carts, tires and every other damn thing not nailed down.
Two groups of test subjects. Tell Group A the usual story, some people are getting placebos while others are getting the real thing and no one knows who's who. Tell group B everyone's getting a placebo. Give everyone placebos, and see if the pills being taken by group A have any effect.
~
Also get Group C and tell them they are all getting placebos and give them the real pills and get Group D and tell them they are all getting the real pills and give them placebos. With Group A, the patients will have some uncertainty about what they are getting and that may affect the effect.
Then get Group E and tell them they are getting real placebos and give them random pills and then get Groups F through J and give them pills on the second Tuesday of every month and tell them you're uncertain about what the pills are and then get Group K to distribute fake placebos, real placebos and small slices of toast to Groups A, D and G respectively and then tell Group L they're not needed and should just take whatever pills they find at home or on the street. This ensures that Groups B, C, E and J but not C know what they're taking but not really and that people in Group A will think they're in Group D.
We finally figure out how to hurl objects into other planets at 134,216 miles per hour and you want to slow them down?! I bet you're one of those Bruckheimer haters as well aren't you?
Blam! Take that, Mars!
I can see where this argument is going, so lets extend things a little:
coffee buffer overflows - 4,890
sex buffer overflows - 6,880
Clearly sex is about 30% more likely to cause buffer overflows than coffee. Natalie Portman on the other hand hardly causes any.
Niche? Market? This is one of my pet peeves about Firefox - or at least many of it's users - they've forgotten what free software is about. Success no longer appears to be about how good the software is, it's about how many tiny percentage points of userbase can be clawed away from IE or how many new users were converted by the NYT advertisement.
The only way K-Meleon would lose any battle would be if it stopped being good software to use, and having used it since 0.3 I can say that's yet to happen.
Christ, you could be in the Grammar SS.
Maybe even have your own elite squadron, y'know, one comprised solely of girls with tight leather... bound dictionaries.
I dunno, surely all that trade federation political/economic stuff isn't aimed at your four year old, is it?
Don't worry, Daddy will pause the movie at the appropriate spot and explain all that. There may be a test afterwards as well.
Someone put me out of my misery!
The icon does in fact represent the perfect tool for this.
I had to confirm every file I deleted. In my stupor I said yes to delete every .c, .h, .o and anything else in the directory. It was at that point that I decided to take up drinking coffee.
And now you confirm the deletes twice as fast?
The affected notebooks are Compaq Evo Notebook N610c, Compaq Evo Notebook N610v, Compaq Evo Notebook N620c, Compaq Evo Notebook N800c, Compaq Evo Notebook N800v, Compaq Evo Notebook N800w, Compaq Evo Notebook N1000c, Compaq Evo Notebook N1000v, Compaq Presario 1500, Compaq Presario 2800, Compaq Presario x1000, Compaq Presario x1200, HP Compaq Business Notebook nx7000 and HP Pavilion zt3000.
The Department of Redundancy wants to make you their king.
I'll ask him, but I don't think Sidney is going to like the sound of that.
This was funny once maybe twice. Now its just tiring.
Hi, you must be new here.
They also missed the fateful moment when the mapping team discovered ctrl-c, ctrl-v.
invented in 1869.